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@Roosiah mileage will vary how much people care about this. 🤣 Anyway some more ... May - Wint (almost winter) Salem - Lot, Slot, Cat, Sabrina, Citrus (lemon) Lindsay is hard? So not Lohan? He's XL so Jumbo, Spreadsheet, App even Strive or Prosper. I don't mind Leb but Duke would suit Windsor too Viney - Creeper, Grape, even Gilbert Steele - Remington or Rob (steal) or by going from saint to demon something like Lucifer or Judas or plain Bad Turner - disco Tholstrup - Buya (as in Buy A Vowel in Wheel of Fortune Culley - slaughter man (I'd prefer Shooter) Melksham - any variety of milkshake is your favourite (I’d call him chocolate) (or Dairy) Matthews - New-Leigh? Jefferson - Prez Howes - that (or Zat or Zing) Mcadam- Tea or Golf (caddy).... or Shack. Nut? Rivers - Nile or Delta. Darling would be amusing . Flow? Campbell - TC is fine (No, We've had one before in late 80s). Soup? Warhol? Sharp - Blade Fritsch - Magnet White - Wong Petty - Cash or Crime or Crim Berry - strawbs (or Goose or Cackle or Digga (bury) Mentha - Butter or Cigs Henderson - as an 80s child .... Kids , or maybe Cluck or he could be the Chook Kentfield - If he's Clark then the Kenterfield confusion will disappear AMW - how about ..... B?

That's why i think we should spell his nickname as Sailo or Sale-o

Maybe he could imagine sheep in Melbourne jumpers.

No one's mentioned Tracc and Clarry leaving on here. Any new thoughts? 🙄

Is that like a White Russian? (Seriously what is it?)

Hopefully the connection between yhe Krakeur brothers is bettered with our "Pickett line".

Only if they "eat" set shots for breakfast.

Thank you!!!! I spent maybe 15 minutes trying to get across techniques more advanced than just chanting a fact and felt like I got turned into a punchline. (I even mentioned, same as you, how you can memorise facts/items along points on a journey or a location you know like the back of your hand.) It's not quite perfect - you need to refresh your memory occasionally - and memorising useless stuff like a hundred digits of pi is silly. But certainly I learned the numbers for the season just past in minutes this way maybe last January. Then when Ghostwriter (?) relayed a friend's training report referring to all players only by numbers it was a cinch to 'translate' it for everyone here. EDIT: Ah yes, bingo! My comment: "On 08/03/2025 at 16:23, hardtack said: Call me dumb, but I really did not understand any of that. I’m guessing it’s player numbers, in which case, not really being across most of our team’s numbers, I’m completely lost. I’ve got some serious studying to do in the next seven days!! I hope that one day the AFL might see the benefit of putting the player's name on the back of the jersey.😵‍💫 Red 11 35 1 17 5 3 6 20 19 15 8 13 2( Rooey absolutely killing it) 31 37 26 21 disco( no number) 7 32 Gawn petty may bowey Tracc Salem Windsor Lindsay Langford Langdon Lever clarrie Jvr Fritsch Chandler Adams Jefferson Disco Viney Sparrow VS Mentha Petty (again?) Johnson Fullarton Verrall Sharp(too good) Spargo Johnson Campbell woewodin TMac Sestan howes Roy George Adams.... Grey 39 (forward) 35 42 33 28 30 (too good!!!) 9 42 29 40 25 38 22 Roy George 26 and someone I didn’t recognise probs Casey Quote"

Hmm, a bit like , if i heard correctly, crims in England used rhyming slang as code everyone else wouldnt twig to. Especially once you dropped the second part (such as "tart" in "raspberry tart") it'd be almost impossible for a bystander to guess the original term.

Yep, bloody stats! Obviously they can be extremely useful and coaches, and probably some good punters, know this . But in the wrong hands it's like a kid who's played a flight simulator on his comp ans now is trying to fly a jumbo. I'm sure it's not just Bruce McAvaney but my I'd roll my eyes when he'd say a team has been behind by 11 points or less at 3 quarter time 6 times this year and won 5 times as if this proves trailing is an advantage. So many times Ive heard BS like this.

Cool. I was more hedging my bets. Crude statistics can easily miss what is essentially important.

I can't quite find or remember the quote but Shane Warne criticised another bowler of going through the motions just balling the same ball thousands of times, without ever learning from it. Number of games is a crude half-truth stat. There'd be some natural leaders in their second year leading more than some 300-gamers. And of course a player forced to play injured or now past it can't be much of a leader as a witches hat, even if their advice is brilliant. These articles are vaguely interesting but they're also only vaguely right. (I bet most teams' coaches are very aware when a lack of leadership (probably more important than number of games) needs to be addressed.)

Cheeky monkey!

It's funny reading these memory 'techniques' here. 😂 Going over stuff close to when one falls asleep or soon upon waking is good. But repetition is so primitive. This is a footy forum and plenty of memory stuff is online but there's lots of good memory techniques out there. Famous examples are the Major system (where 0 is converted to S or Z and 1 converts to T or D (and '01' could become SEAT or SEED or ZIT or SUIT)) and Memory Palaces (where you have a sequence of locations, such as, say, May at point #1, say, your letterbox, a Roo (or just Van Rooyen himself) at point #2 (say, your welcome mat) through to a chandelier (Chandler), say, at the back doorstep and eventually Henderson and Johnson at the back fence plus using association where words or images help embed stuff into one's memory. (Even cheesy stuff like LangFOURd and nine sounding like 'nun' and former Saint Steele now with that jumper number can help memory.) If anyone wants to memorise the players' numbers it's a lot easier to do than you might think.

I reckon we could braindtorm some good ones for every player. But even if the trackwatchers passed them onto the players I doubt it'd change much. I like Orb (or Malone from On my Pat Malone or Bear from synonym barely). But I think mostly that if I want to be casual and mention Gawny, Ghosty ( or even the well-known singer as Swifty or Tay Tay) the audience doesnt ask "who?"